More Transparency From Mayor Rahm And Cps

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• Mayor Rahm’s FOIA practice in action: it takes CPS eight months to turn over a blank piece of paper.

My recent opus on the saga at Ames Middle School was so complicated that I never got around to telling you one of my favorite parts: the so-called FOIAgate angle.

The mayor announced his Ames decision in October, but by then the fight had been going on for about two years.

Looking for more information, LSNA sent a Freedom of Information Act request to CPS asking for “the minutes of the community meeting, a copy of any publicity that was done to inform the public, and a list of those who attended and those who spoke.”

In any event, Joanna Brown of the LSNA sent her request to CPS in May 2012. Summer, spring, and most of fall came and went with no response.

So it really wasn’t a “secret” meeting. It was just a meeting no one knew about.